The Dark And Rolling Sea Lyrics

By Al Stewart I sat upon the evening hill The shadows set The night grew still And as I sat guitar on knee A voice of flowers called to me Sing, sing to me your song Sing, for I ...Read Full Lyrics

The morning is humming, it's a quarter past nine I should be working down in the vines But I'm lying here with a good friend of mine Watching the sun in her hair I pick the g...Read Full Lyrics

This place is so far away From what passes for civilized life No shops and no cars and no city lights Just a river of stars Over the southernmost ocean so cold A small group of roc...Read Full Lyrics

The earthquake hit at6 19 with a jolt People went running for the doorways And for the next half minute it shook Up on the 17th floor the sommelier wasopening the Wine He knew the ...Read Full Lyrics

I came upon two strangers on a black and white tv In a hotel room called nowhere, in the dead of half-past three. Their eyes met across the captain's table, Both trying to resist,...Read Full Lyrics

On a morning from a Bogart movie In a country where they turn back time You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre Contemplating a crime She comes out of the sun in a silk...Read Full Lyrics

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow All round the day was going down slow Night like a river beginning to flow I felt the beat of my mind go Drifting into time passages...Read Full Lyrics

While traveling northwards on a back country lane I came on the village where first I grew And stopped to climb up the hill once again Looking down from the tracks to the gray slat...Read Full Lyrics

Turn into earth Oh your restless hungry eyes Speak of cloudy summer skies The morning dew Turns into rain Lonely winds will blow my name Dying leaves are seasons gone Losing life ...Read Full Lyrics

In the sapling years Of the post war world in An English market town I do believe we traveleed In schoolboy blue The cap upon the crown And books on knee Our faces pressed against ...Read Full Lyrics